…policy on this issue. Following those visits, the NMPF board adopted a resolution calling on Congress to act quickly to provide consumers across the country clear and consistent information on…
Agri View: GMO Law
…The Grocery Manufacturers Association immediately filed an appeal that is currently pending. Read more. From: Congress.gov H.R.1599 – Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 2015 114th Congress (2015-2016) Safe…
NACD Responds to Approval of EPA Spending Bills
…suppression costs. “The House and Senate’s proposed budget allocations for the Forest Service’s state and private programs are signs that Congress is headed in the right direction when it comes…
11th-Hour Push for GMO Labeling Standard
…discussed the ongoing negotiations in the U.S. Senate and the needed action by Congress to pass the bill. The coalition says failure to find and pass legislation by July 1…
NMPF Endorses Creating Tax Incentive Legislation
…the bipartisan co-chairs of the Congressional Dairy Farmer Caucus. NMPF sent a letter today thanking the sponsors for their efforts to move this legislation through Congress. A similar bill is…
Agri View: GMO Legislation
…Side Capital Flows , Contributor to Forbes by Omri Ben-Shahar, professor at the University of Chicago Law School As more states pass mandatory GMO labeling laws, Congress has been trying…
NPPC President Weber Talks Exports, TPP on Capital Hill
…Partnership (TPP) Agreement, which would eliminate tariff and non-tariff barriers to U.S. products, the National Pork Producers Council reiterated in congressional testimony. NPPC President John Weber, a pork producer from…
NMPF Board Adopts Resolution
NMPF Board Adopts Resolution Urging Congress to Pass Federal Biotech Labeling Standard With Vermont’s biotechnology food labeling law about to take effect in July, the National Milk Producers Federation urged…
Plant Health and Resilience Research
…for $700 million; this amount is the full funding level authorized by Congress when it established AFRI in the 2008 Farm Bill. For more information on what a changing climate…
CFBF Seeks Movement on Drought Bills
…It’s time for the Senate to send a drought bill to a conference committee, and for Congress to produce commonsense legislation that helps ease the impact of water shortages in…
NPPC: ‘GIPSA’ Rule Would Wipe Out TPP Benefits
…the pork industry more than $330 million annually. Tens of thousands of comments, including 16,000 from pork producers, were filed in opposition to the rule, and Congress several times included…
Impacts of Food Waste
…I The Honorable Chellie Pingree, Member of Congress from Maine Panel II Ms. Dana Gunders, Senior Scientist, Food & Agriculture Program, National Resources Defense Council, San Francisco, CA Mr. Jesse…
EPA, Army Corps of Engineers Violate Law, Farm Bureau Tells Congress
…Federation said today. Don Parrish, senior director of congressional relations at AFBF, told the Senate Subcommittee on Fisheries, Water and Wildlife that the Army Corps’ novel interpretations of environmental law…
NPPC: ‘GIPSA’ Rule, TPP Could Affect Producers
…more than $330 million annually. Tens of thousands of comments, including 16,000 from pork producers, were filed in opposition to the rule, and Congress several times included riders in USDA’s…